Recently we realised that we were in need of a modal form/dialog. Sure there is a javascript “dialog” function however it is completely useless in IE7 and what’s more it’s not really ideal in other browsers. Most of our work is based on Prototype/Scriptaculous and we have used Control.Modal in other projects so I went about writing a small layer that can sit on top of it to provide an easy to use modal dialog. Control.Modal.Dialog was born.

At the same time, I’ve spent about 3 minutes setting up Xebidy’s Code Library, we are planning on releasing more and more of the code we are writing internally to the world under Open Source licenses and hopefully Bootstrap will be one of those. Sadly, other things tend to get in the road, like clients.

Update 4/06/2008: We have released a new much better version of this. It still lives at the same place.

Well after quite some time away from working on the DOM Inspector I have made some headway over the last couple of weeks and I’m ready to let the world see what I’ve done.

The major changes I’ve made here are to do with the DOM View, it has been changed to become far more similar to that of Firebug or the Safari DOM Inspector (which I’ve never used, I’m only repeating what I’ve been told). It’s a lot different from the old view, but having used it quite a bit over the last week, it is easy to use. The CSS based searching really changes the way you view documents, rather than browsing for them, it is very easy to just type where you want to go.

Anyway, I’d really like to hear what people have to say about it, there are obviously some performance issues, and there is broken functionality, but I think it is quite effective as a proof of concept.

Here’s the link.